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Weekly Contest #376
There are few sounds in Ireland more terrifying than the cry of a banshee. The old people say that when you hear her keening in the dead of night, someone in your family is about to shuffle off this mortal coil. Her hair hangs long and silver, her eyes are red from weeping, and her wail can curdle milk, freeze blood and send a grown man running for the holy water. What they don’t tell you is that a banshee can also suffer from hot flushes, chronic fatigue and brain fog that makes you walk into a room and forget whether you’re there to coll...
Weekly Contest #308
May stepped out into the sunshine, wincing at the bright rays. Her weary eyes were sensitive and puffy from the tears of the night before. A flash of pain seared her heart when she seen the beautiful fields and mountains that rolled out before her. Innis Fae or the isle of the fairies as her Irish grandmother referred to it. Sheila often told her wild tales of the romance of the isle, and of the “Fae” the Fae were fairies and often featured in her stories of home, Sheila seemed to have a complicated relationship with them one day playing wit...
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